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About Ben Gaydos

Ben Gaydos is a designer, filmmaker, artist and educator. He has filmed sadhus in Nepal and fisherman in India, worked as a designer in Germany and the UK, collaborated with blues musicians in Virginia and electronic artists in Detroit. His experiments in design, sound, film and video have been exhibited internationally. Ben has conducted research in design and anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received his MFA in Visual Communication/Design. He is co-founder of goodgood, a Boston-based interdisciplinary design firm, and is currently teaching design at the Art Institute of Boston. See more of his work at goodgoodland.com and 3toed.com.

 

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SHOP RVA
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Shop RVA aims to create bridges within the community and foster an awareness of the locally owned businesses in Richmond,... More > Virginia and the benefits that shopping locally can bring to our neighborhoods. This book was the result of a fruitful collaboration between shop-owners and students in the graphic design and anthropology programs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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WordPlay explores the human fascination of language on the printed page. This diverse collection of artists, designers and... More > craftspeople and traverse the boundaries between the semantic and syntactic, using words as a conceptual and aesthetic force. From the experimental and unconventional to the traditional methods of Gutenberg, the artists in this exhibition playfully and poetically mark the page with words
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[ethno]graphic design
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Visual communication is a part of everyone’s daily existence. It is a ubiquitous mode that shapes not only the environment... More > that individuals inhabit, but the very identity of the individual. Graphic designers, who create the vast majority of the visual communication encountered, play a crucial role in the production of cultural identity. It is a necessity that designers understand that role, as agents of cultural production. [ethno]graphic design is an ever-evolving approach to graphic design which utilizes anthropological methods in the creative process. This document presents a collection of projects which take an anthropological approach to the design process, utilizing techniques developed by cultural anthropologists to aid the design process - primarily ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, collaboration, multivocal representation and reflexivity. < Less
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The Medium is the (Instant) Message
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14 graphic design students at Virginia Commonwealth University were asked to reflect on the writings of Marshall McLuhan,... More > their validity today, and respond with "probes" of their own.

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Shop RVA: Shop Local
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Shop RVA aims to create bridges within the community and foster an awareness of the locally owned businesses in Richmond,... More > Virginia and the benefits that shopping locally can bring to our neighborhoods. This book was the result of a fruitful collaboration between shop-owners and students in the graphic design and anthropology programs at Virginia Commonwealth University. < Less
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[ethno]graphic design
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Visual communication is a part of everyone’s daily existence. It is a ubiquitous mode that shapes not only the environment... More > that individuals inhabit, but the very identity of the individual. Graphic designers, who create the vast majority of the visual communication encountered, play a crucial role in the production of cultural identity. It is a necessity that designers understand that role, as agents of cultural production. [ethno]graphic design is an ever-evolving approach to graphic design which utilizes anthropological methods in the creative process. This document presents a collection of projects which take an anthropological approach to the design process, utilizing techniques developed by cultural anthropologists to aid the design process - primarily ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, collaboration, multivocal representation and reflexivity. < Less
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SHOP RVA
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Shop RVA aims to create bridges within the community and foster an awareness of the locally owned businesses in Richmond,... More > Virginia and the benefits that shopping locally can bring to our neighborhoods. This book was the result of a fruitful collaboration between shop-owners and students in the graphic design and anthropology programs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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The Medium is the (Instant) Message
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14 graphic design students at Virginia Commonwealth University were asked to reflect on the writings of Marshall McLuhan,... More > their validity today, and respond with "probes" of their own.

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